Cool stuff at SNW

NAB made a big impression on me I’ve been putting off writing about SNW because I’ve been busy. I still am. But the successful procrastinator has to use every excuse possible, and writing about SNW is my last one. Paul Calleja Paul is responsible for...

New ZFS performance numbers

My colleague at Data Mobility Group, Walter Purvis, sent me a link to Mark Round’s site with new ZFS performance numbers. Thanks to Storage Forum for the link that caught Walter’s eye. Here’s some storage eye-candy The performance comparison is...

Life is a sequential access workload

I saw the future at NAB No, it isn’t a storage company. Or a system company. It is a workload. The dominant storage workload of the 21st century. Large file sizes, bandwidth intensive, sequential reads and writes. What about OLTP, small random reads and writes?...

Dumbing down tech

Who said consumerization of IT would be all good? I certainly didn’t. It is happening and you either get with the program or . . . . Case in point I was doing an on line search for the zone info on hard drives. App note? Disk manual? Nope. Only these info-free...